Word: muted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indian family over a ten year period, describing the interaction of the five important characters: the mother and father, a daughter, a young son, and an old sick aunt. Shortly after the beginning of the film, Apu, the son, becomes a central figure, the viewer of the action, the mute commentator. The first we see of him is an eye, which his sister opens with her fingers; and his eye follows the action for the rest of the film, peering over stone walls, looking out from the folds of a cloak, staring down at the ground at his sister...
Patty's familiarity with her role was understandable. Even while her taped performance in Zone was on the air last week, Patty was onstage in Boston playing a similar but far more difficult part. She is the deaf, mute and blind child of The Miracle Worker, the Broadway-bound account of Helen Keller's early years (TIME, Oct. 5). And in The Miracle Worker, Patty's achievement is even more astonishing than it was in Zone...
...public the magician is both mute and masked; it is only when he climbs into bed with his wife that he strips off his satanic guise and lets the audience in on his secret: he is really a good man with a perfectly normal voice, forced by poverty into becoming a "ridiculous vagabond, living a lie." Inevitably, the charlatans' show ends in disaster, but the magician gets his revenge: he plays dead and, in a sequence eerie as a Kafka nightmare, torments a doctor who wants to dissect him. And at film's end, after numbing humiliations...
...living thing that survives in corpses in much the same way that hair and fingernails have been popularly believed to grow after death. So he performs an autopsy on the body of an electrocuted criminal, frightens his wife unconscious by faking her murder, finally shocks a deaf-mute into a heart-stopping nightmare-blood running from the bathroom spigot, a rubber-masked fiend with knife and hatchet popping out of closets, etc. This last time, when the doctor performs his autopsy, a cockroach-like incarnation of fear escapes, the movie stops, and the silhouetted "tingler" itself seems to be crawling...
Success has left Jonah with one big worry: that his lip will go. Blowing into a mute all night is a tough assignment, requires twice as much air power as playing an unmuted instrument. Long ago Jonah developed what fellow trumpeters call a "big-band lip," but he still finds the going tough if he does not carefully pace himself. "These people come in with requests," he says, "like I Can't Get Started, and I'm thinking about that F sharp on the end, and I think, 'Man, you can request, but this...